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As artists we must start refusing commissioners that gives ai references. Each they provide something else each they find someone else.

I find it charming when people do that, personally. So SAME

What if someone gives you an example in prose, would you consider that as a reference. Some people have no privacy to draw and art to meek to share their ideas with other people in the room.

I never understood the vitriolic hatred some artists have had for drawing on lined paper. It's just half a grid. Near-perfect parallel lines that can help you if you worked with them.

I'ma be real if someone were to give me a genned ref I'd immediately decline their comm idc how much they're paying me it ain't worth that risk and disrespect

An AI image is an "illustration" already solved, it's impossible to use it as reference without tainting your own drawing at the end.

For sure! Heck, if I can't do shitty little sketch of what I'm picturing (like a pose), I'll take picture of myself in a pose and send that as a ref (did that for a recent D&D char com). One of my favorite pieces I commissioned I used MS paint to draw a pose and got a great piece of art in return:

Some of the best work I've done came from a stick figure drawn by my commissioner! (But yeah ref sheet artists and many others are here to help when there's no art to draw from ^^)

There are a lot of bases out there, made by artists to give you something to work off of. Also, a lot of artists who MAKE ref-sheets work off of descr. or talk with you about things; I had a concept for a dragon in mind, sketched something and talked with the artist about her colors and details :)

My tattoo artist was so appreciative of my quick, janky 5 minute sketch for my newest tattoo because it gave him a really good starting place to know exactly how I wanted things along with the written description✌️ Even stick figures create a composition to build off of

I LOVE getting sketches from commissioners. It helps so much to know exactly what they have in mind for a pose/layout. Cause sometimes it's not 100% clear, ever with a bunch of references. That, and they always look amazing and bring me so much joy to see. Esp the stick figures. ♡

Recently added 'no AI refs' to my ToS. Repeat offenders will be black listed.

Atleast scribbling helps us get what our clients wants

Yeah the amateur doodles are the best imo. They're always so quirky and adorable ❤️

I constantly tell clients and coworkers that their napkin and back of the envelope scrawls are welcome.

And here I am still hiding my terrible-ness of not being able to apply the image of the idea from my head into paper instead of copying it but inside my brain and into a image 😑

THIS IS SO FUCKING TRUE. I want my art/doodles to be made from a person no matter the skill level they are at!

Same.

The amount of times, in regards to figuring out a pose or what a character has feature-wise, and the commissioner sends me a stick figure doing their best to accurately depict it, i've still the majority of the time end up figuring it out! I don't think people realise how informative doodles CAN be

As someone who commissions artists, i love my badly scribbled sketches, that way i can convey my thoughts better

I’m never calling image generation bots AI. An actual AI could at least SEE what it is doing and do the most artistic thing of all; redoing something because they’re not satisfied with what was made.

I tell this to just about everyone irl! I do a lot of sketches in public, so I get that comment a lot. Thankfully, I've seen quite a few people turn around and start making art after seeing mine and I love and encourage their art so much!

As a graphic designer i often get ai references and it bothers me so much because I can't tell if they want me to copy the polished slop style or not. It's not rough enough to be a reference